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Our Queens Li­brary win­dows, that is the cut-​​out shapes on the out­er sides are organ­i­cally shaped, with par­al­lel stairs with­in. Cir­cu­la­tion in the build­ing means go­ing to young people’s, teen’s, and adult’s sec­tions. There are the prop­er pre­cau­tions for acoustic con­di­tions on the inte­rior and there is ac­cess to the roof and on ground lev­el there is a read­ing gar­den with ginko trees, over­look­ing the East Riv­er. […]

Along 57th Street there is a lot of build­ing ac­tiv­i­ty, some new glass tow­ers and some in­dis­pens­able com­merce like Riz­zoli Book­store has been chased out; while some good in­sti­tu­tions like the Art Stu­dents League re­main. So there is an un­set­tling time there for some, es­pe­cial­ly for the en­trenched mid­dle class. […]